[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Sat May 27 01:12:55 PDT 2006


Steve Kargl wrote:
> In a recent email to freebsd-current,
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-May/063435.html
> Alexander Kabaev stated that the import of GCC 4.1.1 is coming soon.
> 
> I propose that Fortran support in the base system be removed
> when GCC 4.1.1 is imported.
> 

Nominate an appropriate replacement in ports, and we'll add it to the
CD package set.  That replacement should then become the default
dependency in the ports tree.

Scott


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